Meta Llama 3.1 with MLX LM and the MLX Python API as Context

mlx_api_prompt.py

import os
import mlx.core as mx
from mlx_lm import load, generate

filename = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(mx.__file__), "core/__init__.pyi")
with open(filename, 'r') as fid:
    prompt = fid.read()
prompt += "\nHow do you write a self-attention layer using the above API in MLX?"

model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit")

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]

prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
)

generate(
    model,
    tokenizer,
    prompt,
    512,
    verbose=True,
    temp=0.0,
    max_kv_size=4096,
)

have you or anyone else found if the method above (getting the methods for MLX via the library) act as the best docs for porting code to MLX?

I haven't tried much there tbh. The API I use above includes the docstrings (from which a lot of the docs are autogenerated) so there would be substantial overlap between using that and using the actual docs.

have you or anyone else found if the method above (getting the methods for MLX via the library) act as the best docs for porting code to MLX?

I haven't tried much there tbh. The API I use above includes the docstrings (from which a lot of the docs are autogenerated) so there would be substantial overlap between using that and using the actual docs.

I've been using the MLX .md docs and formatting them with structure via https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt

The docstrings is a good idea.